Top Republican political leaders aren’t the only ones shunning their party’s presidential nominee — a vast number of highly skilled managers and policy experts, veterans of recent GOP administrations who would normally be expected to fill key positions for a new White House, are also vowing to sit out a Donald Trump presidency. - Politico
William McGurn writes: When President Obama leaves office about eight months from now, he will leave behind a growing war in Iraq. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have each vowed to fight it—he with bombings and surrogates, she without combat troops. And both with the pretense that we can win on the cheap, without a potentially unpopular presidential commitment. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)